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Universities would prefer no AI
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Universities are resisting AI adoption while industry dominates frontier model development, leaving higher education increasingly irrelevant to the technology's trajectory.
For engineers, this means the talent pipeline from universities may not keep pace with industry needs, and academic research will likely matter less for AI advancement. The compute gap between industry and academia is widening dramatically, with universities unable to match industry's infrastructure investments.
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Over 90 percent of notable AI models released in 2025 came from industry, with universities having virtually no influence over frontier development.
Universities cannot compete on compute infrastructure, illustrated by ten New York universities spending two years and $340 million to reach about 400 GPUs while xAI deployed 100,000 GPUs in 122 days.
Open-source AI adoption is growing rapidly, with 63 percent of organizations running open models in production, which will further reduce universities' role in knowledge development.
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